Changing Senses of Place: Navigating Global Challenges

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Christopher M. Raymond is Professor in Sustainability Science Sustainability Transformations and Ecosystem Services at the Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science (HELSUS) Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry University of Helsinki Finland. He serves as Coordinating Lead Author on the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) Values Assessment. He has published extensively on the multiple values of nature. Lynne C. Manzo is an environmental psychologist and Professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture in the College of Built Environments at the University of Washington in Seattle USA. Her research focuses on place attachment displacement social justice and the politics of place. Daniel R. Williams is Research Social Scientist at the USDA Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station in Fort Collins Colorado USA. He has published extensively on place-based conservation adaptive governance of landscape change and the science of practice in wildfire and climate adaptation. Andrés Di Masso is Associate Professor at the Departmental Section of Social Psychology University of Barcelona Spain. His work focuses on place-discourse power and the everyday politics of people-place relations. He has contributed innovative theoretical frameworks and methodological approaches to place attachment sense of place and place identity. He leads an international network on social change (GRICS). Timo von Wirth is Assistant Professor at the Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences and the Dutch Research Institute for Transitions Netherlands. His work addresses the dynamics and contestations of places in transformation. He has published extensively on the role of place in sustainability transitions on the relationship of place attachment and urban change and on the advancement of measuring the quality of life in urban contexts.